down,” in which all things are to be “made new”: these are not images of mere repair, development, or incremental improvement within a broadly stable situation. The content of Jesus’s teaching, as much as Paul’s testimony, bespeaks a salvation whose advent involves an unanticipated divine action that marks a radical break with what has gone before, its overturning, its revolution, its displacement. As Carl Braaten observes, “The apocalyptic God approaches history with oppositional power, in order